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              Government Announces Reduced UCR Fees for 2019
              Monday, January 07, 2019
              2019 Registration Period Now Open The federal government has announced reduced annual fees in 2019 for commercial carriers and other entities required by law to participate in the Unified Carrier Registration Plan (UCR). The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA), which has oversight of UCR, published the final rulemaking on December 28.  The 2019 UCR registration period is now ...read more
              Categories: Press Release
              Oregon Fuels Tax System Password Change Requirements
              Thursday, January 03, 2019
              The Oregon Secretary of State has concluded an Audit of our online system, and one of their recommendations relating to security is for users to increase password length and complexity to comply with statewide IT standards. The new passwords must include the following:Must be at least 10 characters longMust contain one capital letterMust contain at least one number (0-9)Must contain at least one ...read more
              Categories: Press Release
              FMCSA TO EXEMPT CARRIERS FROM CALIFORNIA BREAK LAWS
              Thursday, January 03, 2019
              As announced late last week, FMCSA said that carriers do not have to comply with California laws requiring employers to provide workers with regular meal breaks and paid rest breaks, rebuking a 2014 federal court ruling. FMCSA will grant a petition filed in September by ATA, which asked that the agency exempt carriers from the California-specific break laws, arguing that they interfere with ...read more
              Categories: General
              January is Human Trafficking Prevention Month
              Thursday, January 03, 2019
              Since a Presidential Proclamation in 2010, January has been designated Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month, with Friday, January 11 being National Human Trafficking Awareness Day. According to the U.S. Department of Defense, human trafficking is a crime in which force, fraud or coercion is used to compel a person to perform labor, services or commercial sex, affecting all populations, ...read more
              Categories: General
              JUDGE: FEDERAL LAW TRUMPS CALIFORNIA’S NEW INDEPENDENT CONTRACTOR TEST
              Thursday, January 03, 2019
              A federal judge in California is challenging a ruling issued by the California Supreme Court in April that established new criteria for how carriers should discern employee drivers vs. independent contractors. Judge James Otero, a U.S. District Judge in California’s Central District, said in his Nov. 15 opinion that federal law, when it comes to truck transportation, pre-empts the state’s strict ...read more
              Categories: General
              FMCSA: NEW DIABETES ASSESSMENT FORM NOW AVAILABLE
              Wednesday, December 05, 2018
              A final rule from FMCSA that allows medical examiners, in consultation with a truck driver’s treating clinician, to decide if an insulin-treated diabetic driver is qualified to get behind the wheel became effective in November. The rule eliminates the need for a driver to wait two or three months while an exemption request is processed, after being automatically disqualified for having the ...read more
              Categories: General

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